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On another forum, I saw the word generfusity today- it was in reference to PA gifts that were is for "when someone passive-aggressively (not just mistakenly) spends a lot of money (or otherwise does something "kind" for you) on something that's what they think you should want rather than what they know you do want.", so, it is like generosity, but with an "FU" in the middle.

What other made up words have people seen that they enjoy?

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When angels go bad, they go worse than anyone. Remember, Lucifer was an angel. ~The Marquis De Carabas

I don't even remember where I heard this one, but in reference to the plastic divider that one puts between orders at the grocery store to separate one person's groceries from another... I always now find myself referring to it as the "food fender". Never heard it yet from others, but to me it has an appealing ring to it.

(And now they've started putting advertising sleeves on the aforementioned "food fenders" at my local supermarket. I don't know whether to be disgusted at yet more advertising or admiring of the person who first thought of this!)

Do you guys remember Sniglets? SNL stuff? http://bit.ly/IxuuWI still use a lot of those words in the books. Like, nevitts for cat tongue roughness. Table snorkling when you eat something too hot and have to cover your mouth and breathe to cool it off.

A friend's word for a lot of something is "beaucouptudinous." I use it a lot.

I scare easily when I'm riding shotgun in a car, because I'm not inside the driver's head, so I'm totally unaware he's about to pass that slow car in front of us ... all I see is our car closing in on it at a rapid rate and ohmygoodnesswe'regoingtocrash! I call this "passengeranoia."